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"Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"There are two major products that come out of berkeley LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." »Jeremy S. Anderson
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"california, the department store state." »Raymond Chandler
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"california: The west coast of Iowa." »Joan Didion
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"I love california, I practically grew up in Phoenix." »Dan Quayle
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"california is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange." »Fred Allen
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"All creative people should be required to leave california for three months every year." »Gloria Swanson
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"Nothing is wrong with california that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." »Ross MacDonald
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"It's a scientific fact that if you stay in california you lose one point of your IQ every year." »Truman Capote
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"california is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death." »William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
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"In the South of california has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations." »Farnsworth Crowder
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books." »Thomas Carlyle
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"The best thing to do with a degree is to forget it. (at the university of Salford)" »Prince Phillip
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"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology." »Clive James
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." »Flannery O'Connor
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"university politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." »Henry Kissinger
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"If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." »John Anthony Ciardi
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools." »Doris Lessing
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"If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." »Thomas Carlyle
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"The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something." »Hanna Holborn Gray
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"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." »Richard Hofstadter
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"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education." »George Bernard Shaw
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"It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it." »Sen O'Faolin
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"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles." »Paul Fussell
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""I, on the other hand, have a degree from the university of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me." »Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth
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"I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.'" »Anthony Lake
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"Ricky Here's what I'm gonna ask of you... We're going to be spending the night in New York, so it worked out well for all of us. I want you to take it back to the business class, I want you to round up a couple of honeys... at our hotel room we're gonna have kind of a pool party. california gangster-style, you know what I mean Kick ass pool party thing." »Made
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"The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in." »Robert J. Kibbee
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